EP0472349A2 - Autonomous registration overload control for cellular mobile radio systems - Google Patents
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- This invention relates to cellular mobile radiotelephone systems and to autonomous registration of mobile radiotelephones with a local cell site or fixed site base station. It is particularly concerned with the control of registrations during overload conditions occuring in a transmission channel handling these registrations.
- Autonomous registration is an overhead mobile radiotelephone locating function used in a cellular system to identify the mobile radiotelephones covered for service within a particular local cellular service system, e.g. a cellular geographic service area.
- Autonomous registration may be time based and/or geographic based. In time based autonomous registration, the registration of a mobile radiotelephone is in response to the passage of a time interval as defined by a clock.
- Geographic based autonomous registration is based on the location of the mobile radiotelephone; e.g. a roamer (e.g., a mobile radiotelephone away from its home territory) autonomously registers when it enters the territory of a new cellular system.
- a roamer e.g., a mobile radiotelephone away from its home territory
- Each mobile radiotelephone when not engaged in making a call, continuously listens to a set-up channel with control information and sends overhead messages via a reverse signalling channel.
- System identification code signals generated by the base stations of the cellular system identify the presently serving cellular system to the mobile radiotelephone. These identification code signals include time stamp signals which are periodically incremented at some specific rate.
- each mobile radiotelephone compares a timed identification stamp or marker (REGID) received from the base station with a stored value of its next registration (NXTREG) which was calculated from parameters received in a previous overhead signal transmission.
- REGID timed identification stamp or marker
- NXTREG next registration
- a mobile radiotelephone begins to lose reception of its present identifying code signal it searches for a new better quality identification code signal. If the new identification code signal indicates that the mobile radiotelephone system is in a new cellular service area, the mobile radio telephone automatically registers with the new base station.
- the mobile radiotelephones In registering, the mobile radiotelephones send their serial number and related information to the local cellular service system over a reverse radio channel dedicated to transmitting overhead messages of this type.
- This reverse channel is normally used for a variety of purposes, e.g. control messages sent for the purpose of originating phone calls, in addition to the registration of mobile radiotelephones with the base station.
- Registration signal channel overloads occurring due to overly numerous autonomous registration messages initiated by the mobile radiotelephones are averted in accord with the principles of the invention by monitoring the number of autonomous registration messages occuring in a particular local cellular system and responding in the event of an impending overload by sending messages to specified mobile radiotelephones instructing them not to register at this time.
- the roamer mobile radiotelephones requesting registration within an area covered by a cellular system experiencing an immediate or an impending overload are instructed, via an overhead message, not to register. Normal registration service is not resumed until the overload condition is terminated.
- Additional features of the system to prevent autonomous registration message overloads include the capability to limit registration by homers (e.g., a mobile radiotelephone in its home territory) and roamers (e.g., a mobile radiotelephone in a foreign territory) to prevent an overload in the reverse channel by restricting the rates of autonomous registration.
- homers e.g., a mobile radiotelephone in its home territory
- roamers e.g., a mobile radiotelephone in a foreign territory
- FIG. 1 A schematic of a typical geographical layout of a cellular radiotelephone system is illustrated in FIG. 1.
- the radiotelephone service area is divided into a plurality of cells 101 each covering a defined and substantially contiguous geographical area as illustrated by the geometric tiled hexagons 102.
- Each cell 101 includes a cell site 103 or base station which is a wireless communication and switching center for providing air communication with mobile radiotelephones.
- the cell sites 103 each include air radio communication equipment, including antennas, and land communication equipment including trunk connections to a mobile telephone switching office 105 which couples the cell site to a public switched land telephone network 106 which is typically the normal public switched telephone system.
- An understanding of this cellular concept may be attained from the article "The Cellular Concept" by V. H. McDonald, Bell System Technical Journal , January 1979, pages 15-41, Vol. 58, No. 1.
- a cell site communicates with a plurality of mobile radiotelephones via a plurality of different radio channels. Some channels are dedicated to voice transmissions and others are dedicated various overhead control message transmissions.
- FIG. 2 an overhead air radio transmission channel 210 established between a mobile radiotelephone 202 and a cell site 201 is schematically illustrated
- a radio channel for overhead messages directed from the mobile radiotelephone 202 to the cell site 201 is designated as a reverse control channel. Autonomous registrations are normally transmitted over this reverse control channel.
- Call setups, including cell site identification information, are transmitted from the cell site 201 to the mobile radiotelephone over a setup channel.
- the cell site 201 is connected with a plurality of other cell sites including cell site 204 to a switching and control MTSO 205 which is interconnected to a public switched telephone network. If the mobile radiotelephone 202 leaves the area covered by the cell site 201 and enters the area covered by the cell site 204, the mobile loses the setup and reverse control channel of cell site 201. The new identifying information on the corresponding set up channel of cell site 204 may cause it to register in the new cell. If on the other hand it remains in the cell area of cell site 201, the time information provided by the cell site 201 causes it to periodically register.
- Registration is a procedure enabling a cell site to determine the identity of and the presence of mobile telephones within its geographical radio transmission boundary. Both the cell site and mobile radiotelephone store and transmit registration information. Each cell site 301 as shown in FIG. 3 maintains a register of the mobile radiotelephones 302 it services. Calls originating at the public switched land line network are connected to the dialed mobile radiotelephone through the particular cell site with which it is registered. The cell site 301 generates system identification, information and control signals such as shown in FIG. 3.
- SID system identification number
- REGID time stamped registration ID
- REGINCR bit or flag enabling/disabling control defining the ability of the mobile radiotelephone 302 to register (REGH for homer mobile radiotelephones and REGR for roamer radio mobile radiotelephones) and a number REGINCR defining the maximum interval between registrations of the mobile radiotelephones 302.
- Each mobile radiotelephone unit 910 stores the transmitted overhead message data in its mobile unit.
- This data includes certain data items concerning the system identification number (SID), the sum of the most recently transmitted time stamped registration ID (REGID) and the increment REGINCR, which establishes NXTREG, the next time of normal registration and the registration enabling/disabling control bits or flags (REGH;REGR).
- SID system identification number
- REGID the sum of the most recently transmitted time stamped registration ID
- REGINCR which establishes NXTREG
- the storage of these system data messages is schematically shown for a roamer mobile radiotelephone 910 as shown in FIG. 9.
- the mobile radiotelephone unit illustrated is presently registered in the system identified by the illustrative (510) number #3. This identification number of the system is stored in its memory 911 and its ability to autonomously register is enabled since the flag REGR is set to an enabling one.
- the mobile crosses a geographic barrier 915 to a service area bearing a different identification (SID) number, e.g. #4 and the overhead signal channel is switched to a system #4 frequency.
- the mobile radiotelephone unit 910 autonomously registers in the new service area and stores the new identification (SID) number #4 in its memory 911.
- a roamer mobile radiotelephone unit 1010 has its registration enabling flag REGR initially set to one (enabling autonomous registration) and is in the service area identified by the illustrative identification number (SID) #4. It moves to a new service area #7, that is experiencing an overload in its overhead message transmission channels. This service area is hence transmitting autonomous registration disabling messages to the roamer mobile radiotelephones.
- the enabling flag REGR of the mobile radiotelephone is set to zero by the new system and the mobile radiotelephone is disabled from autonomous registration by the setting of the REGR flag to zero. Hence the mobile radiotelephone unit is prohibited from registering and its stored SID value is not changed.
- a homer mobile radiotelephone 1110 as shown in FIG. 11 is in a service area presently free of overloads on the overhead message channels.
- the present time is some illustrative value 1100 and the increment REGINCR is set at 100 thereby establishing the next registration time, NXTREG, at 1200 for this mobile radiotelephone.
- NXTREG next registration time
- NXTREG next registration time value into its memory.
- an overload has resulted in the control equipment.
- the system for preventing autonomous registration overload slows the rate at which the REGID value is incremented. Accordingly the REGID value is not incremented sufficiently to permit the mobile radiotelephone to register at the occurence of the actual time value 1200.
- An MTSO site controller is shown in FIG. 4 and includes a central processor 401 which includes stored program controls to control the interface between the public switched telephone network and the cell site locations. Included are a cell data base 402 used for cell site control. Its data identifies the cells and their control functions. This data is used for various additional purposes such as radio channel management. A subscriber data base 403 permits location of roamer and homer mobile radiotelephone units by identifying the various homer subscribers both active and inactive and also maintaining a temporary data base of roamer subscribers being serviced. Additional data storage 404 is provided for cell management and cell maintenance functions. Signal interface 406 interconnects the MTSO with the public switched telephone network and the signal interface 407 connects it to the various cell sites.
- a cell data base 402 used for cell site control. Its data identifies the cells and their control functions. This data is used for various additional purposes such as radio channel management.
- a subscriber data base 403 permits location of roamer and homer mobile radiotelephone units by identifying the various homer subscribers both active
- the cell site apparatus is disclosed in FIG. 5 and includes a local cell site processor 501 and a local data storage apparatus 502.
- the local cell communicates with the MTSO of FIG. 5, via a line interface 503, which is connected in turn to the radio transceivers of the radio frames 506 and 507 which are both under the control of the cell site processor 501.
- the processor 501 is operative to control message reception and transmission, setup channel control, and radio tuning.
- the radios include a control channel radio frame 506 and a voice channel frame 507.
- the autonomous registration functions are controlled through radio frame 506 over the setup and reverse control channels.
- An amplifier 508 and combiner 509 couple the radios of the frames 506 and 507 to an antenna 510.
- the process begins by reading a continuous clock of the cell site (block 603) to establish the value OH TIME which represents the value of time presently maintained in the cell site control.
- An initial value is set for the rate RIDINCR at which the broadcast time stamp of the cell REGID is to be incremented (block 605).
- the present OH TIME is converted to the stored value OH OLD in block 609 and is used with a current OH TIME in the periodic calculation of block 611 in calculating the function: OH TIME - OH OLD RIDINCR
- REGID REGID + OH TIME - OH OLD RIDINCR
- RIDINCR is a registration ID increment rate which defines the time interval for incrementing REGID.
- This new REGID value is broadcast throughout the cell area (block 617) and the flow routine returns to block 609 to determine a new value of OH OLD . If the value of decision block 613 is no, the flow path returns to block 609 without broadcasting the REGID value to the mobile radiotelephones.
- the initial step (block 703) involves the measuring of the rate at which autonomous registration (AR) messages are received.
- a threshold of the autonomous registration rate is established usually in terms of the number of autonomous registration messages within a definite time interval.
- the step expressed by decision block 705 evaluates if that AR rate threshold has been exceeded. If the threshold AR rate is not exceeded the process flow path returns, via path 707, to the monitoring function as expressed by block 703.
- the autonomous registrations of all the roamer radiotelephones covered by the service area are inhibited by setting the flags REGR of each of the roamer radiotelephones to zero by means of an overhead control message broadcast to all the mobile radiotelephones.
- the rate of autonomous registration messages is re-evaluated with respect to the AR rate threshold by the step enumerated in the decision block 711. If the rate of autonomous registration messages is below the threshold rate the autonomous registration of roamer radio telephones is again enabled, according to instructions enumerated in block 713, by setting the flags REGR of the mobile radiotelephones to a 1 value.
- the process flow continues to the block 715 which enumerates program instructions for decreasing the rate at which the time stamp REGID is incremented.
- the REGID increment rate is decreased by increasing the value of the registration ID increment rate RIDINCR to a new value RIDINCR*.
- the new values of REGID are designated REGID*.
- REGID* REGID* + OH TIME - OH* OLD RIDINCR*
- the rate of autonomous registration messages is again checked, by the information of decision block 717 to see if the threshold AR rate is exceeded. If the AR threshold rate is exceeded the process flow continues, via flow path 719, to the block 715 whose delineated process step again decreases the rate at which the value REGID is incremented by the method described above.
- the process flow continues to block 721 which is operative to increase the rate at which REGID* is incremented by decreasing the value of RIDINCR*.
- the rate of autonomous registration messages is compared to the original threshold rate by the instruction process of decision block 723. If the original rate of incrementing the standard REGID has not been attained the flow proceeds by path 725 to block 721 which again increases the rate at which REGID* is incremented. If the original rate at which the standard REGID is being incremented has been attained the flow proceeds to the instructions of block 727 which is operative to broadcast overhead messages to again enable the roamer radiotelephones to register by changing the REGR flag to a 1 value.
- the instructions defined in the block 803 have the process determine the rate at which the reception of autonomous registration messages is occurring. If the autonomous registration message rate exceeds the preset threshold AR rate, as per block 805, the roamer radiotelephones are disabled from registering by sending an overhead control message setting the REGR flag to 0 as per the instructions at block 807. The instruction of subsequent decision block 809 determines if the rate of autonomous registration messages still exceeds the threshold rate. If the AR rate is now under the threshold rate, as determined by instructions in decision block 809, the registrations of roamer radio telephones are again enabled by the instructions of block 811 and the flow path returns to block 803.
- the flow process proceeds to the instructions of process block 817.
- the autonomous registration of the roamer mobile radiotelephones is again enabled and the autonomous registration of homer mobile radiotelephones is disabled.
- the rate of autonomous registration messages is again measured in decision block 819. If the threshold AR rate is not exceeded the autonomous registration of the homer mobile radio telephones is again enabled per the instructions of block 821 and the flow returns to process block 803. If the rate of autonomous registration messages continues to exceed the threshold AR rate the flow process continues to the process block 823 and the roamer mobile radio telephones are inhibited from registering by the instructions of block 823. The registrations of homer mobile radiotelephones are again enabled as per block 825. The flow continues to decision block 815 which determines if the threshold AR rate is exceeded. If the threshold AR rate continues to be exceeded by the autonomous registration message rate, the flow continues to process block 817 and the immediately preceding steps are repeated. If the AR rate is below threshold, the flow continues to process block 811 to again enable registration of roamer mobile radiotelephone and then returns to process block 803.
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- This invention relates to cellular mobile radiotelephone systems and to autonomous registration of mobile radiotelephones with a local cell site or fixed site base station. It is particularly concerned with the control of registrations during overload conditions occuring in a transmission channel handling these registrations.
- Autonomous registration is an overhead mobile radiotelephone locating function used in a cellular system to identify the mobile radiotelephones covered for service within a particular local cellular service system, e.g. a cellular geographic service area. Autonomous registration may be time based and/or geographic based. In time based autonomous registration, the registration of a mobile radiotelephone is in response to the passage of a time interval as defined by a clock. Geographic based autonomous registration is based on the location of the mobile radiotelephone; e.g. a roamer (e.g., a mobile radiotelephone away from its home territory) autonomously registers when it enters the territory of a new cellular system. Detailed particulars concerning the requirements and operation of autonomous registration in a cellular mobile radiotelephone system may be found in the published standard EIA-553.
- Each mobile radiotelephone, when not engaged in making a call, continuously listens to a set-up channel with control information and sends overhead messages via a reverse signalling channel. System identification code signals generated by the base stations of the cellular system identify the presently serving cellular system to the mobile radiotelephone. These identification code signals include time stamp signals which are periodically incremented at some specific rate. In a time response autonomous registration each mobile radiotelephone compares a timed identification stamp or marker (REGID) received from the base station with a stored value of its next registration (NXTREG) which was calculated from parameters received in a previous overhead signal transmission.
- If a mobile radiotelephone begins to lose reception of its present identifying code signal it searches for a new better quality identification code signal. If the new identification code signal indicates that the mobile radiotelephone system is in a new cellular service area, the mobile radio telephone automatically registers with the new base station.
- In registering, the mobile radiotelephones send their serial number and related information to the local cellular service system over a reverse radio channel dedicated to transmitting overhead messages of this type. This reverse channel is normally used for a variety of purposes, e.g. control messages sent for the purpose of originating phone calls, in addition to the registration of mobile radiotelephones with the base station.
- Since the transmission capacity of the reverse channel is limited, the need to process a large number of autonomous registrations will fill the reverse channel to capacity and block or severely limit transmissions of the other overhead messages that operate to originate calls and perform other support services.
- Registration signal channel overloads occurring due to overly numerous autonomous registration messages initiated by the mobile radiotelephones are averted in accord with the principles of the invention by monitoring the number of autonomous registration messages occuring in a particular local cellular system and responding in the event of an impending overload by sending messages to specified mobile radiotelephones instructing them not to register at this time. In one particular illustrative implementation disclosed herein the roamer mobile radiotelephones requesting registration within an area covered by a cellular system experiencing an immediate or an impending overload are instructed, via an overhead message, not to register. Normal registration service is not resumed until the overload condition is terminated.
- Additional features of the system to prevent autonomous registration message overloads include the capability to limit registration by homers (e.g., a mobile radiotelephone in its home territory) and roamers (e.g., a mobile radiotelephone in a foreign territory) to prevent an overload in the reverse channel by restricting the rates of autonomous registration. This is achieved in the illustrative embodiment by dilating the time of the generation of timing stamps on markers, e.g. REGID, by the local cellular access station and transmitting these altered timing markers to the mobiles so that the mobile radiotelephones experience a longer time interval between autonomous registrations.
- These terminations of roamer and homer mobile radiotelephone registrations and dilations of roamer and homer registration timing marks is controlled by a stored program control which is operative to actively preserve sufficient capacity on the reverse channel for the call originations from mobile radiotelephone and other cellular overhead activities.
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- FIG. 1 is a schematic of a typical cellular system geographical layout;
- FIG. 2 is a schematic of the interconnections in a cellular radiotelephone system between a mobile radiotelephone and a telephone network;
- FIG. 3 is a schematic listing of the overhead messages and information involved in autonomous registration of mobile radiotelephones;
- FIG. 4 is a block diagram of parts of a control system used in cellular systems for controlling autonomous registrations;
- FIG. 5 is a block diagram of a cell site radio transmission system;
- FIG. 6 is a flow diagram executed by the control system of FIG. 4 in handling messages between a radiotelephone and a cell site;
- FIG. 7 is a flow diagram of a process included within the control system of FIG. 5 to prevent autonomous registration overloads;
- FIG. 8 is a flow diagram of another process included within the control system of FIG. 5 to prevent autonomous registration overloads;
- FIG. 9, 10, 11 and 12 are schematics representing various aspects of a mobile radiotelephone overhead data storage content.
- A schematic of a typical geographical layout of a cellular radiotelephone system is illustrated in FIG. 1. The radiotelephone service area is divided into a plurality of
cells 101 each covering a defined and substantially contiguous geographical area as illustrated by the geometrictiled hexagons 102. Eachcell 101 includes acell site 103 or base station which is a wireless communication and switching center for providing air communication with mobile radiotelephones. Thecell sites 103 each include air radio communication equipment, including antennas, and land communication equipment including trunk connections to a mobiletelephone switching office 105 which couples the cell site to a public switchedland telephone network 106 which is typically the normal public switched telephone system. An understanding of this cellular concept may be attained from the article "The Cellular Concept" by V. H. McDonald, Bell System Technical Journal, January 1979, pages 15-41, Vol. 58, No. 1. - A cell site communicates with a plurality of mobile radiotelephones via a plurality of different radio channels. Some channels are dedicated to voice transmissions and others are dedicated various overhead control message transmissions. In FIG. 2 an overhead air
radio transmission channel 210 established between amobile radiotelephone 202 and acell site 201 is schematically illustrated A radio channel for overhead messages directed from themobile radiotelephone 202 to thecell site 201 is designated as a reverse control channel. Autonomous registrations are normally transmitted over this reverse control channel. Call setups, including cell site identification information, are transmitted from thecell site 201 to the mobile radiotelephone over a setup channel. - As shown in FIG. 2 the
cell site 201 is connected with a plurality of other cell sites includingcell site 204 to a switching and control MTSO 205 which is interconnected to a public switched telephone network. If themobile radiotelephone 202 leaves the area covered by thecell site 201 and enters the area covered by thecell site 204, the mobile loses the setup and reverse control channel ofcell site 201. The new identifying information on the corresponding set up channel ofcell site 204 may cause it to register in the new cell. If on the other hand it remains in the cell area ofcell site 201, the time information provided by thecell site 201 causes it to periodically register. - Registration is a procedure enabling a cell site to determine the identity of and the presence of mobile telephones within its geographical radio transmission boundary. Both the cell site and mobile radiotelephone store and transmit registration information. Each
cell site 301 as shown in FIG. 3 maintains a register of themobile radiotelephones 302 it services. Calls originating at the public switched land line network are connected to the dialed mobile radiotelephone through the particular cell site with which it is registered. Thecell site 301 generates system identification, information and control signals such as shown in FIG. 3. It periodically transmits a system overhead message to the mobile radiotelephone which includes a system identification number (SID), a time stamped registration ID (REGID), a bit or flag enabling/disabling control defining the ability of themobile radiotelephone 302 to register (REGH for homer mobile radiotelephones and REGR for roamer radio mobile radiotelephones) and a number REGINCR defining the maximum interval between registrations of themobile radiotelephones 302. - Each
mobile radiotelephone unit 910, as shown in FIG. 9, stores the transmitted overhead message data in its mobile unit. This data includes certain data items concerning the system identification number (SID), the sum of the most recently transmitted time stamped registration ID (REGID) and the increment REGINCR, which establishes NXTREG, the next time of normal registration and the registration enabling/disabling control bits or flags (REGH;REGR). The storage of these system data messages is schematically shown for a roamermobile radiotelephone 910 as shown in FIG. 9. The mobile radiotelephone unit illustrated is presently registered in the system identified by the illustrative (510)number # 3. This identification number of the system is stored in itsmemory 911 and its ability to autonomously register is enabled since the flag REGR is set to an enabling one. The mobile crosses ageographic barrier 915 to a service area bearing a different identification (SID) number,e.g. # 4 and the overhead signal channel is switched to asystem # 4 frequency. Themobile radiotelephone unit 910 autonomously registers in the new service area and stores the new identification (SID)number # 4 in itsmemory 911. - In FIG. 10 a roamer
mobile radiotelephone unit 1010 has its registration enabling flag REGR initially set to one (enabling autonomous registration) and is in the service area identified by the illustrative identification number (SID) #4. It moves to a newservice area # 7, that is experiencing an overload in its overhead message transmission channels. This service area is hence transmitting autonomous registration disabling messages to the roamer mobile radiotelephones. The enabling flag REGR of the mobile radiotelephone is set to zero by the new system and the mobile radiotelephone is disabled from autonomous registration by the setting of the REGR flag to zero. Hence the mobile radiotelephone unit is prohibited from registering and its stored SID value is not changed. - A homer
mobile radiotelephone 1110, as shown in FIG. 11 is in a service area presently free of overloads on the overhead message channels. The present time is some illustrative value 1100 and the increment REGINCR is set at 100 thereby establishing the next registration time, NXTREG, at 1200 for this mobile radiotelephone. At the occurence of 1200 at the normal increment rate the mobile radiotelephone autonomously registers with the system and inserts the new incremented time value NXTREG = 1300 into its memory. In FIG. 12 an overload has resulted in the control equipment. The system for preventing autonomous registration overload slows the rate at which the REGID value is incremented. Accordingly the REGID value is not incremented sufficiently to permit the mobile radiotelephone to register at the occurence of the actual time value 1200. - An MTSO site controller is shown in FIG. 4 and includes a
central processor 401 which includes stored program controls to control the interface between the public switched telephone network and the cell site locations. Included are acell data base 402 used for cell site control. Its data identifies the cells and their control functions. This data is used for various additional purposes such as radio channel management. Asubscriber data base 403 permits location of roamer and homer mobile radiotelephone units by identifying the various homer subscribers both active and inactive and also maintaining a temporary data base of roamer subscribers being serviced.Additional data storage 404 is provided for cell management and cell maintenance functions.Signal interface 406 interconnects the MTSO with the public switched telephone network and thesignal interface 407 connects it to the various cell sites. - The cell site apparatus is disclosed in FIG. 5 and includes a local
cell site processor 501 and a localdata storage apparatus 502. The local cell communicates with the MTSO of FIG. 5, via aline interface 503, which is connected in turn to the radio transceivers of the radio frames 506 and 507 which are both under the control of thecell site processor 501. Theprocessor 501 is operative to control message reception and transmission, setup channel control, and radio tuning. The radios include a controlchannel radio frame 506 and avoice channel frame 507. The autonomous registration functions are controlled throughradio frame 506 over the setup and reverse control channels. Anamplifier 508 andcombiner 509 couple the radios of theframes antenna 510. - A flow chart delineating the registration process as shown in FIG. 6. The process begins by reading a continuous clock of the cell site (block 603) to establish the value OHTIME which represents the value of time presently maintained in the cell site control. An initial value is set for the rate RIDINCR at which the broadcast time stamp of the cell REGID is to be incremented (block 605). The value of REGID is determined in
block 707 by evaluating the function: -
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- RIDINCR is a registration ID increment rate which defines the time interval for incrementing REGID.
- This new REGID value is broadcast throughout the cell area (block 617) and the flow routine returns to block 609 to determine a new value of OHOLD. If the value of
decision block 613 is no, the flow path returns to block 609 without broadcasting the REGID value to the mobile radiotelephones. - A time based technique of preventing overloads in overhead message channels in a cellular radiotelephone system is disclosed in the flow chart of FIG. 7. The initial step (block 703) involves the measuring of the rate at which autonomous registration (AR) messages are received. A threshold of the autonomous registration rate is established usually in terms of the number of autonomous registration messages within a definite time interval. The step expressed by
decision block 705 evaluates if that AR rate threshold has been exceeded. If the threshold AR rate is not exceeded the process flow path returns, viapath 707, to the monitoring function as expressed byblock 703. If the AR rate threshold, defined byblock 703, has been exceeded as determined by the step enumerated inblock 705 the autonomous registrations of all the roamer radiotelephones covered by the service area are inhibited by setting the flags REGR of each of the roamer radiotelephones to zero by means of an overhead control message broadcast to all the mobile radiotelephones. - The rate of autonomous registration messages is re-evaluated with respect to the AR rate threshold by the step enumerated in the
decision block 711. If the rate of autonomous registration messages is below the threshold rate the autonomous registration of roamer radio telephones is again enabled, according to instructions enumerated inblock 713, by setting the flags REGR of the mobile radiotelephones to a 1 value. - If the rate of autonomous registration messages is determined by the procedure of
decision block 711 to exceed the threshold rate, the process flow continues to theblock 715 which enumerates program instructions for decreasing the rate at which the time stamp REGID is incremented. The REGID increment rate is decreased by increasing the value of the registration ID increment rate RIDINCR to a new value RIDINCR*. The new values of REGID are designated REGID*. The value of the expression: -
- The rate of autonomous registration messages is again checked, by the information of
decision block 717 to see if the threshold AR rate is exceeded. If the AR threshold rate is exceeded the process flow continues, viaflow path 719, to theblock 715 whose delineated process step again decreases the rate at which the value REGID is incremented by the method described above. - If the rate of autonomous registration messages, measured in
decision block 717, does not exceed the AR rate threshold the process flow continues to block 721 which is operative to increase the rate at which REGID* is incremented by decreasing the value of RIDINCR*. The rate of autonomous registration messages is compared to the original threshold rate by the instruction process ofdecision block 723. If the original rate of incrementing the standard REGID has not been attained the flow proceeds bypath 725 to block 721 which again increases the rate at which REGID* is incremented. If the original rate at which the standard REGID is being incremented has been attained the flow proceeds to the instructions of block 727 which is operative to broadcast overhead messages to again enable the roamer radiotelephones to register by changing the REGR flag to a 1 value. The original sequence of REGID values has been continuously maintained by the stored control program during the overload protection process and this value is now again installed as the operative REGID by resynchronizing the temporary value REGID* with the actual value of REGID in the process step ofblock 729 and the process flow returns to the process atblock 703. - An alternative geographic or system location based process for preventing an overload due to an excess of autonomous registration messages is disclosed in the flow chart of FIG. 8. The instructions defined in the
block 803 have the process determine the rate at which the reception of autonomous registration messages is occurring. If the autonomous registration message rate exceeds the preset threshold AR rate, as perblock 805, the roamer radiotelephones are disabled from registering by sending an overhead control message setting the REGR flag to 0 as per the instructions atblock 807. The instruction ofsubsequent decision block 809 determines if the rate of autonomous registration messages still exceeds the threshold rate. If the AR rate is now under the threshold rate, as determined by instructions indecision block 809, the registrations of roamer radio telephones are again enabled by the instructions ofblock 811 and the flow path returns to block 803. - If the rate of autonomous registration messages continues to exceed the threshold rate, as per the instructions of
decision block 809, the flow process proceeds to the instructions ofprocess block 817. Here the autonomous registration of the roamer mobile radiotelephones is again enabled and the autonomous registration of homer mobile radiotelephones is disabled. - The rate of autonomous registration messages is again measured in
decision block 819. If the threshold AR rate is not exceeded the autonomous registration of the homer mobile radio telephones is again enabled per the instructions ofblock 821 and the flow returns to process block 803. If the rate of autonomous registration messages continues to exceed the threshold AR rate the flow process continues to the process block 823 and the roamer mobile radio telephones are inhibited from registering by the instructions of block 823. The registrations of homer mobile radiotelephones are again enabled as perblock 825. The flow continues to decision block 815 which determines if the threshold AR rate is exceeded. If the threshold AR rate continues to be exceeded by the autonomous registration message rate, the flow continues to process block 817 and the immediately preceding steps are repeated. If the AR rate is below threshold, the flow continues to process block 811 to again enable registration of roamer mobile radiotelephone and then returns to process block 803.
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- A method of registration for mobile radiotelephones in a wireless telephone system in which mobile radiotelephones in a system identified area communicate over radio channels with a base station providing coverage of the system identified area and the wireless telephone system is coupled in tum to a land switched telephone network, comprising the step of instructing mobile radiotelephones to register over a designated overhead radio channel, and CHARACTERISED BY the steps of monitoring registration requests over the overhead radio channel, identifying the attainment of an overload condition in autonomous registration requests, and inhibiting acceptance of registration requests from mobile radiotelephones when the overload condition is identified.
- A method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the step of monitoring the registrations over the overhead radio channel comprises the step of counting the number of autonomous registration requests within a defined time interval, and the step of identifying the attainment of an overload condition comprises the step of comparing the count to a preset threshold count.
- A method as claimed in claim 1 or 2 wherein the step of inhibiting acceptance of registration requests from mobile radiotelephones comprises the step of inhibiting autonomous registrations of roamer mobile radiotelephones and permitting autonomous registrations of homer mobile radio telephones.
- A method as claimed in claim 3 comprising the steps of continuing to monitor autonomous registration requests of homer mobile radiotelephones, counting the number of autonomous registration requests within a defined time interval, and inhibiting autonomous registrations of homer mobile radiotelephones if the number of autonomous registration requests counted exceeds a threshold count.
- Apparatus for controlling registrations of mobile radiotelephones of a cellular telephone system, comprising a radio communication station for coupling mobile radiotelephones with a land switched telephone network, means for maintaining a list of mobile radiotelephones served by the radio communication station, means for broadcasting instructions to mobile radiotelephones to cause available mobile radiotelephones within coverage area of the radio communication station to request registration permitting an update of the means for maintaining, and CHARACTERISED BY means for monitoring registration requests and determining if an overload condition occurs, and means for selectively preventing registration requests of the mobile radiotelephones if the means for monitoring determines an overload condition.
- Apparatus as claimed in claim 5 wherein the means for monitoring registration requests and determining if an overload condition occurs comprises means for counting registration requests within a time interval, and means for comparing the count with a preset threshold count.
- Apparatus as claimed in claim 5 or 6 wherein the means for selectively preventing registration requests of the mobile radiotelephones comprises means for preventing registration requests from roamer mobile radiotelephones.
- Apparatus as claimed in claim 5, 6 or 7 wherein the means for selectively preventing registration requests of the mobile radiotelephones comprises means for reducing a rate at which mobile radiotelephones are instructed to register.
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